Check-book



" UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

NATHAN A. Giens, on NORWICH, CONNECTICUT.

CHECK-BooK.

.SPECIFICATION forming part orf Letters Patent No.9281,682, dated July24, 18,83. Application led Novemberj, 1882. (No model.)

. Be it known that I, NATHAN A. GIBBs, a

citizen of the United States, and a resident of Norwich, in the countyof New London and State of Connecticut, have invented Vcertain new anduseful Improvements in Check-Books, of which the following is aspecication. A

'My invention relates to that class of check or draft books in whichstubless detachable checks are combined with record-leaves; and myinvention consists of av construction and arrangement of parts, ashereinafter described, whereby the keeping of an exact record of eachtransaction and the ascertaining of the balance on 'hand is greatlyfacilitated, while the parts are dition.l

In the drawings, Figure lis a perspective view ofthe improved check-bookopen.` Fig. 2 is an edgeview. K The back A ofthe book, as shown, isformed to constitute three panels, c b c, capable of being folded likethose of an ordinary pockety To the inside of the panel a is securedbook. the mass of blank checks B, collected in the form of a tablet orotherwise, so as to be readily separately detachable. At the hingedjunction of the panels b and c is secured the folded edge of a packageof record-leaves, C, one of which may be pasted down upon the face ofthe panel b. Each leaf :C is divided by vertical lines into've sections,d e f g h, and longitudinal lines mdefne the length of these sections.of the date and amount of deposits, the section f fora record of thebalance, the section g for the record ofthe amount of checks drawn,

and the section-7L for the memorandum of the in a compact and accessiblecon-V The sections d and e are for the record' number, date, and draweeof the check. This permits a ready'and expeditious record and easyascertaining of the balance and constant record thereof Thus, thebalance being at the head of the section j', a deposit is entered in thesections d c and added to the balance in section f, and the new balanceplaced on the line below the old in `sectionf, the amount of a ycheckdrawn is entered in the section g and is deduced from the last balanceVin section f, and the new balance placed in thenext lower section o fthev division f. After" the last (the sixth) check on each double pageisdeducted the total of deposits less the total of checks a cover, A,folded toV form three panels, a b c, i

a series of checks secured to the panel a, and

a series of record-stubs secured at the inner edges at the junction ofthe panels b and c, as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specication in thepresence of two sub'- scribingwitnesses. f

NATHAN A. GIBB-S.

Witnesses:

v C. W. LANMAN,

ALFRED S. CHILDS.

